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Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) represents the latest incarnation of pretrained language models which have recently advanced a wide range of natural language processing tasks. In this paper, we showcase how…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Yang Liu , Mirella Lapata

This research introduces a novel text generation model that combines BERT's semantic interpretation strengths with GPT-4's generative capabilities, establishing a high standard in generating coherent, contextually accurate language. Through…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Jiajing Chen , Shuo Wang , Zhen Qi , Zhenhong Zhang , Chihang Wang , Hongye Zheng

Current neural re-rankers often struggle with complex information needs and long, content-rich documents. The fundamental issue is not computational--it is intelligent content selection: identifying what matters in lengthy, multi-faceted…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Shubham Chatterjee

Measuring the quality of a generated sequence against a set of references is a central problem in many learning frameworks, be it to compute a score, to assign a reward, or to perform discrimination. Despite great advances in model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Florian Schmidt , Thomas Hofmann

With the rapid growth of research publications, there is a vast amount of scholarly knowledge that needs to be organized in digital libraries. To deal with this challenge, techniques relying on knowledge-graph structures are being…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Ming Jiang , Jennifer D'Souza , Sören Auer , J. Stephen Downie

Retrieval-based conversational systems learn to rank response candidates for a given dialogue context by computing the similarity between their vector representations. However, training on a single textual form of the multi-turn context…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Lahari Poddar , Peiyao Wang , Julia Reinspach

More recently, Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) was proposed and has achieved impressive success on many natural language processing (NLP) tasks such as question answering and language understanding, due mainly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Shih-Hsuan Chiu , Berlin Chen

Political scientists often grapple with data scarcity in text classification. Recently, fine-tuned BERT models and their variants have gained traction as effective solutions to address this issue. In this study, we investigate the potential…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Yu Wang , Wen Qu , Xin Ye

ColBERT introduced a late interaction mechanism that independently encodes queries and documents using BERT, and computes similarity via fine-grained interactions over token-level vector representations. This design enables expressive…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Archish S , Ankit Garg , Kirankumar Shiragur , Neeraj Kayal

In recent years BERT shows apparent advantages and great potential in natural language processing tasks. However, both training and applying BERT requires intensive time and resources for computing contextual language representations, which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Tan Huang

We present a novel way of injecting factual knowledge about entities into the pretrained BERT model (Devlin et al., 2019): We align Wikipedia2Vec entity vectors (Yamada et al., 2016) with BERT's native wordpiece vector space and use the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Nina Poerner , Ulli Waltinger , Hinrich Schütze

Recent advances in Named Entity Recognition (NER) show that document-level contexts can significantly improve model performance. In many application scenarios, however, such contexts are not available. In this paper, we propose to find…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Xinyu Wang , Yong Jiang , Nguyen Bach , Tao Wang , Zhongqiang Huang , Fei Huang , Kewei Tu

BERT, which stands for Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers, is a recently introduced language representation model based upon the transfer learning paradigm. We extend its fine-tuning procedure to address one of its…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Raghavendra Pappagari , Piotr Żelasko , Jesús Villalba , Yishay Carmiel , Najim Dehak

Newly-introduced deep learning architectures, namely BERT, XLNet, RoBERTa and ALBERT, have been proved to be robust on several NLP tasks. However, the datasets trained on these architectures are fixed in terms of size and generalizability.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Jean-Philippe Corbeil , Hadi Abdi Ghadivel

Much progress has been made recently on text classification with methods based on neural networks. In particular, models using attention mechanism such as BERT have shown to have the capability of capturing the contextual information within…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-14 Zhibin Lu , Pan Du , Jian-Yun Nie

Models based on the transformer architecture, such as BERT, have marked a crucial step forward in the field of Natural Language Processing. Importantly, they allow the creation of word embeddings that capture important semantic information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Jacob Turton , David Vinson , Robert Elliott Smith

Language model pre-training has proven to be useful in learning universal language representations. As a state-of-the-art language model pre-training model, BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) has achieved amazing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Chi Sun , Xipeng Qiu , Yige Xu , Xuanjing Huang

Contextualized representations from a pre-trained language model are central to achieve a high performance on downstream NLP task. The pre-trained BERT and A Lite BERT (ALBERT) models can be fine-tuned to give state-ofthe-art results in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Hyunjin Choi , Judong Kim , Seongho Joe , Youngjune Gwon

In this paper, we report our method for the Information Extraction task in 2019 Language and Intelligence Challenge. We incorporate BERT into the multi-head selection framework for joint entity-relation extraction. This model extends…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Weipeng Huang , Xingyi Cheng , Taifeng Wang , Wei Chu

Passage retrieval and ranking is a key task in open-domain question answering and information retrieval. Current effective approaches mostly rely on pre-trained deep language model-based retrievers and rankers. These methods have been shown…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Shengyao Zhuang , Guido Zuccon